Fair for Knowledge: Clouds: April 16

“Fair for Knowledge: Clouds”

Saturday, 16 April 2011, 11 am–4 pm (brunch hours)

Jo’s restaurant, 264 Elizabeth Street, New York

For table reservations, call 212 966 9640 (recommended)

An event organized by Cabinet and copresented as part of Villa Gillet’s “Walls and Bridges” series

Featuring: Deborah Coen (historian of science), Pierre Pachet (novelist and literary critic), Lytle Shaw (literary scholar), Luc Steels (computer scientist), Ginger Strand (author), and Carole Talon-Hugon (philosopher).

Cabinet’s “fairs for knowledge” take learning out of the classroom and into unexpected venues. Focusing on apparently minor topics that, if treated correctly, can in fact open up to a wide number of cultural and scientific disciplines, each fair features six leading experts in a given field ready for brief, spontaneous conversations with members of the general public. Aiming to create bridges between specialists and laymen, these fairs are designed to encourage an informal, social, and open mode of learning.

Following the first installment devoted to the theme of “Hair” at the Brooklyn Flea, this season’s fair for knowledge on “Clouds” will take place at a restaurant, where diners can order some food for thought to be served at their table along with their meal.

Reservations with Jo's restaurant recommended but not necessary.

http://cabinetmagazine.org/events/fair_for_knowledge_clouds.php

Digital Folklore: April 15

Digital Folklore: A conversation with Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied

Friday, April 15, 7pm

New Museum

$6 Members, $8 General Public

How is folk culture defined in the digital age? This is the question that renowned artists Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied set out to answer in their new book, Digital Folklore (2010), an anthology that examines an emergent kind of amateur, popular art: the kind made by computer users. The artists write: “Users’ endeavors, like glittering star backgrounds, kittens, and rainbow gradients, are mostly derided as kitsch or in the most extreme cases, postulated as the end of culture itself. In fact this evolving vernacular, created by users for users, is the most important, beautiful and misunderstood language of new media.” At this talk, part of the monthly New Silent Series, Lialina and Espenschied will present their groundbreaking book, and their new definition of contemporary folk art.

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/536

The Hard Labor of the Live: April 15

Rebecca Schneider: The Hard Labor of the Live

Friday, April 15, 6:30pm

Cooper Union, Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square

If a service economy thrives on the production of affect and the “immaterial labor” associated with the post-industrial condition, in what ways does performance-based work challenge or uphold that condition? Schneider brings this question to recent work in major art museums, such as Tino Sehgal’s Kiss and Marina Abramovic’s The Artist is Present, beside work in theatre such as the Wooster Group’s Poor Theater.

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122806564463968&index=1

Dara Birnbaum & Paul Pfeiffer: April 14

Skowhegan Conversations #2: Transitions in Media: Generational Shifts

Dara Birnbaum & Paul Pfeiffer, moderated by Lori Zippay (Electronic Arts Intermix)

Thursday, April 14 7pm

White Columns 320 West 13th St

Admission Free

Temporary Services: April 13

Social Practice: Temporary Services

Wednesday, April 13, 6pm

MoMA, Theater 3, Cullman Education and Research Building

Chicago-based artist collective Temporary Services in conversation with Max Schumann, Associate Director at Printed Matter Inc., discuss their shared concerns about self-publishing and the democratic aspects of artist books. Moderated by MoMA Director Glenn D. Lowry.

Temporary Services, currently comprising Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin, and Marc Fischer, is an artist group based in Chicago and Copenhagen that has existed, with several changes in membership and structure, since 1998. Temporary Services, which produces exhibitions, events, projects, and publications, consider the distinction between art practice and other creative human endeavors irrelevant. They invent infrastructure or borrow it when necessary. The group is self-representing and has never had a commercial gallery affiliation. In 2008 Temporary Services created Half Letter Press, a publishing imprint and online store, to better circulate their own published work and to begin highlighting and distributing the work of their peers. Publications by the group include Prisoners' Inventions with Angelo (WhiteWalls, 2003), Group Work (Printed Matter, 2005), Public Phenomena (Half Letter Press, 2008) and the nationally distributed newspaper Art Work: A National Conversation About Art, Labor, and Economics (self-published, with numerous contributors, in 2009).

Max Schumann has been working at Printed Matter, Inc. for the past 21 years; he has been Manager since 1993, took on the title of Associate Director in 2005, and has played a key role in the development of many of Printed Matter’s programs and services over the past two decades. Schumann is also a working artist and has shown internationally, mostly in public venues and alternative art spaces. He is currently represented by Taxter & Spengemann in New York City.

Tickets ($10; members, corporate members $8; students, seniors, and staff of other museums $5) are available online, or at the Museum at the lobby information desk or the Film desk.

http://www.moma.org/learn/lectures_events/talks_readings#course11740

Art & Technology: April 10

Art & Technology: How technology is changing art and how we create

Sunday, April 10, 4pm

The Invisible Dog, 51 Bergen St, Brooklyn

Chris Klapper and Jen Lusker will be hosting a panel discussion with five artists who use technology as a medium in their work. Prior to the discussion, each artist will give a short presentation on their work.Participating artists Patrick Gallagher , Maia Marinelli, Julien Gardair, Ernesto Klar, Jason Van Anden

http://theinvisibledog.org/2010/11/24/prana/

Curiosity and Method: April 9

Curiosity and Method:

an all-day symposium in celebration of Cabinet’s ten years of publication

Saturday, April 9, 2011, 10 am–6:30 pm

Betts Auditorium, Architecture Building, Princeton University

FREE. No RSVP necessary

With its fortieth issue, released in January of this year, Cabinet celebrated ten years of publication. We are using the occasion as a way of thinking both retrospectively and prospectively about some keywords that have been important to us in framing our project. These themes include amateurism, curiosity, pranks, the ordinary, deception, attention, the ethics of listening, and more. This all-day symposium gathers a diverse group of extraordinary writers and thinkers to help us sift through these keywords and to allow us to ask questions about Cabinet’s successes and failures. The symposium will be followed by a reception during which there will be a number of short readings (five minutes each) from Cabinet’s first decade.

The full program is listed at:

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/events/curiosity_and_method.php

N. Katherine Hayles: April 8

N. Katherine Hayles: Transcendent Data and Transmedia Narrative

Steven Hall’'s "The Raw Shark Texts"

Friday, April 8, 6:30pm

The Cooper Union - 41 Cooper Square, Rose Auditorium

As databases become dominant cultural forms, narratives are morphing to exploit ecological niches that enable them to compete and cooperate with data. The shape and stakes of these transformations are explored through Steven Hall’s visual/verbal transmedia novel, "The Raw Shark Texts."

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104952866256860&index=1

The Concept of Non-Photography: April 7

The Concept of Non-Photography

Lecture by François Laruelle, Introduction by Robin Mackay

Thursday, April 7th, 7pm

Miguel Abreu Gallery, 36 Orchard Street (between Canal & Hester)

Of what do these essays speak? Of photography in the flesh – but not the flesh of the photographer. Myriads of negatives tell of the world, speaking in clichés among themselves, constituting a vast conversation, filling a photosphere that is located nowhere. But one single photo is enough to express a real that all photographers aspire one day to capture, without ever quite succeeding in doing so. Even so, this real lingers on the negatives’ surface, at once lived and imperceptible. Photographs are the thousand flat facets of an ungraspable identity that only shines – and at times faintly – through something else. What more is there to a photo than a curious and prurient glance? And yet it is also a fascinating secret.

—From Preface, The Concept of Non-Photography

François Laruelle, Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris West Nanterre La Défence, is the founder of ‘non-philosophy’ and the author of around twenty works, including Une biographie de l’homme ordinaire, Principes de la non-philosophie, Le Christ futur: Une leçon d’hérésie, and Philosophie non-standard. An introductory collection of his essays, From Decision to Heresy: Introduction to Non-Philosophy, will be published by Urbanomic/Sequence in 2011.

http://www.miguelabreugallery.com/pdf/UrbanomicSequence_PrRlse_Apr2011.pdf

Lucy Lippard: April 7

Lucy Lippard: Ghosts, the Daily News and Prophecy: Critical Landscape Photography

Thursday, April 7, 7pm

SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street

Based on her book The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society (New Press, 1997), activist, curator and writer Lucy Lippard will examine the role and effectiveness of photography in generating responsibility for place. She has published more than 20 books on art, feminism and politics, including Get the Message? A Decade of Art for Social Change (E.P. Dutton, 1984), The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Essays on Feminist Art (The New Press, 1995) and On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art and Place (The New Press, 2000). Lippard has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Criticism from the College Art Association and the 2011 Award for Curatorial Excellence from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.

Free and open to the public.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3610

Refiguring the Spiritual: Lynda Benglis: April 7

Refiguring the Spiritual: Lynda Benglis

Thursday, April 7, 6:30 - 9pm

Columbia University, Miller Theater, 2960 Broadway

http://www.columbia.edu/event/collaboration-re-figuring-spiritual-lynda-benglis-47260.html